Good NYT read on what happens to airports when hubs are pulled down.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/business/secondary-airports-losing-traffic-have-space-to-rent.html?_r=1&src=recg
We all know the story of PIT; STL and CVG have seen it, too.
The fate of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport may be a portent for other airports serving smaller cities around the United States.Once the main hub of Trans World Airlines, the airport offered as many as 475 departures a day. But now, there are just 256 daily departures, leaving half the concourses at the older of its two terminals vacant and the airport scrambling to find new, revenue-generating uses for the space.
The story mentions how UAL walked away from its hangars leases at OAK (not unlike US and PIT)
Perhaps the saddest line in the article: “A large number of airports in the United States today are totally dependent on the 50-seat airplane for access to the air transportation system,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/business/secondary-airports-losing-traffic-have-space-to-rent.html?_r=1&src=recg
We all know the story of PIT; STL and CVG have seen it, too.
The fate of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport may be a portent for other airports serving smaller cities around the United States.Once the main hub of Trans World Airlines, the airport offered as many as 475 departures a day. But now, there are just 256 daily departures, leaving half the concourses at the older of its two terminals vacant and the airport scrambling to find new, revenue-generating uses for the space.
The story mentions how UAL walked away from its hangars leases at OAK (not unlike US and PIT)
Perhaps the saddest line in the article: “A large number of airports in the United States today are totally dependent on the 50-seat airplane for access to the air transportation system,”
